Travel distance and mass gain in wintering blackbirds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1109-1116

  Cresswell, Will ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; FEEDING; FOOD SUPPLY; OVERWINTERING; PREDATION RISK;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; PASSERIFORMES; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 0032702493     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1244     Document Type: Article

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